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Obama and NCLB: The good--and very bad--news
George Bush could have not realized how much of a friend President Obama would be to his No Child Left Behind initiative.
Obama bashed NCLB when he was running for president, saying that obsession with high-stakes standardized tests was no way to run an education system.
But Saturday we learned the vision that Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, have for the post-NCLB era, and, unfortunately, it doesn’t look much different.
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